Good morning! Happy First Day of Winter ☃️! Warm and rainy start to winter, similar to 2012. At least no road salt, although I’m not planning on driving anywhere today. Final Friday before Christmas. Next Friday is 4:30 PM Sunset 🌆. That’s a big improvement over the 4:22 sunset of the past few weeks.

This morning it’s raining out and 47 degrees in Delmar. ☔ A bicyclist is riding his bike to work on the Normans Kill Bridge on a Delaware Avenue. That’s some dedication. There is a south-southeast breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 10 pm. ☃️ The road salt should reappear magically tonight.

Today will rain. The rain could be heavy at times. 🌧 High of 55 degrees at 12pm. 22 degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around October 27th. Maximum dew point of 55 at 2pm. 🏖️ Makes sense as it’s raining out although sometimes you can have a rain and not have 100% humidity in the air. South wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. A year ago, we had . The high last year was 32 degrees. The record high of 59 was set in 1957. 6.6 inches of snow fell back in 2008.❄

The sun will set at 4:25 pm with dusk around 4:57 pm, which is 30 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 55 degrees. The dew point will be 55 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 2 minutes of daytime, a decrease of over yesterday.

Tonight will rain likely, mainly before 2am. The rain could be heavy at times. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 47 degrees at 6am. 28 degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical night around September 27th. That’s a pretty mild evening, must be close to a record warm for the low temperature. South wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. In 2017, we had with more clouds in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 19 degrees. The record low of -8 occurred back in 1955.

Definitely a cold and wet Friday but it’s remarkable to think the holiday weekend is just around the corner. 🎁 Before you know it, 2019 will be here. While I don’t know for sure I’m still thinking about the Adirondacks for the final weekend of 2018. Time goes by so quickly.

Last night with the rain I decided to stay home, doing some reading and working on some code. 📗I finally got the LOIN32 development boards but I did not do any soldering projects. Maybe tonight. I have a few projects that I want to work on including rebuilding the lighting controller I built last year with the LOLIN32 rather than the Arduino Uno it’s built around now. As the PWM works different on the different board and I’ll be using Bluetooth rather than IR remote, it’s going to require almost a complete rewrite of the code. But that’s fine as I’ve learned a lot of the year and can make the code much more efficient. ♒

As previously noted, next Friday is 4:30 PM Sunset 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 4:30 pm with dusk at 5:01 pm. On that day in 2017, we had sunny and temperatures between 8 and -5 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 32 degrees. We hit a record high of 61 back in 1982.